13-letter words containing r, a, y, c
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- picardy third — a major third in the final tonic chord of a composition written in a minor key.
- piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precipitately — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadratically — square.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.